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Kashnor notes, "Showing Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, and the entrance to La Plata, locating Buenos Ayres and Monte Video." Kashnor dates as ca. 1670. Cartouche: cherubs.. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 700.
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These notes from Museum Bookstore collection 105:571, another copy. Kashnor notes, "Gives a good map of New Mexico, locating Santa Fe and Taos; also shows the old boundaries of Louisiana." Kashnor dates as ca. 1730. Derived from L'Isle map. See 093:470M for another copy. This copy seems earlier with better detailing. Cartouche: Natives & trade goods. Vignettes: Sea battle; Merchants & Indians. Brown pen lines under many names. MS notes: very curious 1690 4011. Mat sticker: 819. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Philips, Atlases, 3474; Lowery, no 473. Verso Text: MS notes: AD 1690 gift of -- 150049.
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Mat MS: 988/4. Prime meridian: Paris, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic. Watermark: Lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Philips Atlases, 652, no. 47. Verso Text: 17 150092.
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Notes from 105:584 of Museum Book Store Collection: Kashnor notes, "The view is an impression of that which is numbered 8A by Phelps Stokes. This has the line of privilege, and the New York locations "a to f" for Utrecht, Vlackebosch, N. Haerlem, Arnhem, Bloemendael and Styvesants-bonverge." McCorkle notes first production as 1655. Kashnor dates as ca. 1686. See 093:495M for another version. This version has Visscher's name replaced by that of Danckert (misspelled). "5" (upper right). An example of state 3 of this map as defined by Burden. Cartouche: Belgian lion, Indian figures. View: Nieuw Amsterdam op't eylant Manhattans. Numerous figures and animals. MS notes: Asher No. 19 224. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: McCorkle 655.1, Philips Atlases, 540 & 541, Asher No. 19, Burden, map 434. Verso Text: MS notes: 224 17.
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the coast from Nantucket to Belle Isle, locating Cape Cod, Boston, Southampton, Plymouth, Aggawom, and other towns in New England. A rare map." Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 462.
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Kashnor notes, "Evidently issued soon after the first voyages by the Hudson's Bay Company, for it locates Port Nelson and New Severn. It is a very valuable map of the early decorative type." Cartouche with angels.. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 449.
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